Climate Regions
Climates and Misc.
Weather map ....
Weather forecasting
100
A large region characterized by a specific type of climate and the plants and animals that live there.
What is a biome?
100
A scientist who studies climates.
What is a climatologist?
100
Shows the weather at many locations at one particular time.
What is a weather map
100
The scientist that predicts the weather.
What is a meteorologist
200
The two types of tropical rainy climates.
What is tropical wet and tropical wet/dry
200
An area's pattern of weather over a long period of time.
What is climate
200
A small circle, showing the location of the weather station.
What is a station model
200
Tool used to find air pressure.
What is a barometer?
300
The dry climate with less than 25 cm. of rain a year.
What is a desert
300
Mild temperatures year-round is a characteristic of this climate.
What is temperate climate
300
lines that connect points of equal air pressure.
What is an isobar
300
The weather tool used to find the wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
400
The area located on the edge of the desert with short grasses and low bushes.
What is a steppe
400
This prevents the water in the thawed soil from draining. Excellent breeding ground for insects.
What is permafrost
400
Lines that join places that have the same temperature.
What is an Isotherm
400
The weather tool used to measure weather in the upper atmosphere.
What is a weather balloon?
500
Name the 3 kinds of temperate marine climates.
What is marine west coast, humid subtropical, and Mediterranean
500
Short, cool summers followed by bitterly cold winters, includes Alaska.
What is the Tundra
500
Isotherms are labled with these.
temperatures in degrees F or C
500
Used to find the location, movement and intensity of precipitation.
What is Radar?
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